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Using Facebook to launch a Botnet army

Wired has a piece talking about how easy this would be to do. It's not entirely speculative since researchers built such a beast. I think the hype is a bit much though. The argument they make could be made for any mechanism that can get people to install software on their own computers. But unlike...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sat, Sep 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security, Privacy
Chrome's EULA

Yah, I'm probably like the 10 trillionth person to post about it, but until now I hadn't really had a chance to look at it. This morning Gizmodo had a piece on it which definitely makes you shake your head thinking WTF. However like most things, I'm guessing that there's a huge gulf between...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Sep 4 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Chrome
Create a Mobile office with Windows Mobile

With such a compelling title, I figured the article would be quite intriguing . I've had a lot of phone drama recently, dropping my WM 6.1 Dash and breaking it, leaving the replacement on the roof of my car and driving off, buying another imate but dropping it into a diet coke. So I reverted back...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Aug 13 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Mobility, Windows Mobile, iPhone
Utter Coolness compliments of Roku

My first Roku Soundbridge joined the family back in 2005. As far as wireless media players go, it was a bit pricey. But it looked really cool and I got it through a special offer making it a lot more reasonable. The form factor and styling was the main thing I attributed the cost to, but I quickly learned...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Jul 3 2008
Filed under: Filed under: News, Roku, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Open Source
"I don't know" is an answer we should hear more often

We've all heard the adage "It's better to remain silent and be thought of as dumb than to speak and remove all doubt." While this is certainly good advice, I don't think it's entirely correct. Let me digress for a moment... Tonight, I was doing some last minute Christmas shopping...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Fri, Dec 21 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling
Business Travel Sucks

I don't remember the details exactly, but at some point in my very early childhood, me and the folks were flying to Pittsburgh for the holidays. I remember pop being really adamant about "flying 1st class so we don't have to put up with all the B__S___". I had already flown a few times...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Dec 13 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work
Calling People "Resources" doesn't make you cool

I know I huff and puff about this a lot, but it drives me insane. Recently, in the ADO.NET NG, a recruiter posted the following. As annoying as it is to have recruiters post in public newsgroups, do they have to talk like such tools? Moreover, I understand it's hard to run Spell and Grammar check...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Dec 5 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling
Wordpress Vulnerability

When I saw Bruce's post on using Google crack MD5 Hashes for you , I had to chuckle. Here's a link to the article Bruce is referencing. Once again, it shows a pretty good case of the damage that can happen by overlooking the seemingly obvious. (Would you want to be the developer that told your...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Nov 29 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology, Security
How *not* to pick up chicks

Obviously these aren't being used in the field , at least I hope not. If they are being used in the field, I'm pretty sure their efficacy leaves something to be desired.

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Thu, Nov 29 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling
The internet addiction test

I scored a pretty low 33. I'm surprised, i thought I'd have done worse. However, if they substituted "computer time" with "internet" I don't think I'd have faired quite as well.

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Wed, Nov 21 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Memes
Guitar Hero III - Misc comments and a few questions

When I first picked it up, I was really wondering whether or not it would be value added in any way in my life. Like I mentioned before, my TV has virtually no usage on it (until about two weeks ago) and sitting on my couch in front of the TV is not something I felt was missing in my life. GH III has...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sun, Nov 11 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Me, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology
Fighting the Bull

A few years ago, I read a truly excellent book called Why Business People Speak Like Idiots: A Bullfighter's Guide . I really liked it b/c I was working at a place with a whole lot of people who were really into talking in business speak and thought they were really cool for doing it. Little by little...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Fri, Sep 7 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling, Cool Stuff
Impostors and phonies getting as bad as spammers

The community server panel , like all mainstream blog engines, has a feature that allows you to approve comments. You can create word lists to automatically filter comments in an effort to eliminate spam. You can search your comments marked spam and delete them. The major problem though is that the spam...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Sep 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Life in General, Me, Mindless Babbling
JesOS (TM) The First True Christian (TM) Operating System

I'm probably going to hell for even reading this, let alone posting a link to it. Atheists/Agnostics and Christians that can laugh at some of the less desirable aspects of their faith will get a good chuckle out of it. If you are of the persuasion that thinks that laughing at any aspect of religion...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Sep 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling
Man bites dog

A few of these clips are definitely NSFW b/c of the language. In fact, more than a few are. But if you look at some of Jimmy Justice's video , you'll probably laugh your butt off. Basically, he's a citizen vigilante who goes around and photographs cops doing things they shouldn't be....

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Sep 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Life in General, Mindless Babbling, Not Safe for Work
Rootkits anyone?

Since I was a youngster, I've always been a fan of Sony stuff. I'm old enough to have spent a few years alive before CD's came out. I was still a little guy when I got my first Sony Portable CD player. Even though there were only a few CDs available at the time (The Firm - Mean Business,...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Sep 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology
And Apple Basic is included for Free!

Twenty years from now, we'll be laughing about the same sort of stuff

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sat, Aug 18 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling
Worst I.T. Excuses

It works on my machine It doesn't matter because no one will ever do that Users like it the way it is I don't write any bugs It'll be fixed in the next release It'll be ready on Monday, we just need to build the setup package The spam filter ate it A little more RAM will fix your performance...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Tue, Aug 7 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Humor, Mindless Babbling, Memes
The coolest campaign ad ever

Ok, so it's probably not real and it's been done before. But it's still really *** cool

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Mon, Mar 5 2007
Filed under: Filed under: News, Life in General, Mindless Babbling
Dumbest lawsuit Microsoft ever faced

This is a big claim on my part, but if this isn't the dumbest lawsuit Microsoft has ever faced , it's got to be a contender. In the lawsuit, Crooker argues that Internet Explorer was set to delete his browsing history after five days, but the software failed to do so. "Any day beyond those parameters...

Posted to The Coding Cuckoo by William on Sat, Mar 3 2007
Filed under: Filed under: News, Mindless Babbling, Misc Technology

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